Chuck Knoblauch

For the 2009 season: Mark Teixeira (8 years, $180 million), CC Sabathia (7-161), AJ Burnett (5-82.5), Nick Swisher (trade)

1) Why would Andy Pettitte, Chuck Knoblauch and Kirk Radomski ask out of the hearing?

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Roger Clemens and his accuser, Brian McNamee, will be the main witnesses at a House hearing on the Mitchell Report after New York Yankees pitcher Andy Pettitte and two others were dropped Monday night.

No team has repeated as World Series champs since the Yankees did so in 2000. Since then, teams have been forced into a lot of different strategies to try to defend their titles. Few, though, have been as inactive in...

Right now we're in that happy pre-consummation zone on the prospective deal between the Mets and the Twins for Johan Santana, that point where everyone's had the right number of cocktails and has that warm, tingly "I...